GMDN AGENCY - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the GMDN Agency Board
• Trustee

Dr. Christina Tong is currently with the National University of Singapore advising Professors and Researchers in Translational Activities from Research to Commercialisation. She previously held positions as Group Director at the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore responsible for the Group's Regulatory Activities in Drugs, Medical Devices, and other Health Care Products; as well as Senior Vice President in Vertex Management, a venture capital management company in the Singapore Technologies Group. She was also on the Board of a number of technology and biotech start-ups in US, Europe and Asia.

Job Titles:

• Member of the GMDN Agency Board
• Trustee

Dr Elizabeth D. Krell is retired from a career at the US FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) where she served as the CDRH Deputy Director for Science, as well as Acting Senior Science Advisor to the FDA Commissioner, and Director of FDA's Office of Science Coordination and Communication. She is a past Director of CDRH's Office of Science and Technology, predecessor to the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, and past Chair of the Global Harmonization Task Force. Dr. Krell served as Executive Vice President for Technology and Regulatory Affairs for AdvaMed and is a current or past member of a number of medical device-related boards as well as those for non-profit community organizations.

Job Titles:

• Member of the GMDN Agency Board
• Trustee
• Senior Advisor to the President and Senior Executive Vice President

Janet E. Trunzo is Senior Advisor to the President and Senior Executive Vice President, Technology and Regulatory Affairs, for the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) and leads a team of regulatory experts. During her tenure at AdvaMed, she has focused on the passage of the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 and subsequent updates. She also concentrates on global regulatory harmonisation and representing the U.S. device industry on the Global Harmonization Task Force. She also chairs the Regulatory Committee for the Global Medical Technology Alliance. Previously Janet held positions at Hybritech, Inc., a medical device and diagnostics manufacturer, and Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, a hospital, diagnostic clinic and research institute.

Job Titles:

• Member of the GMDN Agency Board
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees
• Director of Devices at the MHRA

John Wilkinson, OBE, is Director of Devices at the MHRA which he joined in 2012 and he served as Chair of the Executive Group of the European Competent Authority Network between 2014 and 2018. Prior to joining the MHRA, John was Chief Executive of Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association. His earlier experience included the role of Director General of the Association of British Healthcare Industries and a number of roles in the medical devices industry, both in the UK and the USA, with Becton Dickinson and the BOC Group. These were followed by a period as Chief Executive of an early stage medical imaging company. John holds a first degree in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen and an MBA from the University of Warwick. He was awarded an OBE for services to the medical devices industry in the 2010 New Year's honours list.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Member of the GMDN Agency Board

Mark joined the GMDN Agency at the start of 2010 and is now the CEO. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET. Mark has an MSc in Engineering from Cranfield University. During this time the Agency has increased membership from 400 to over 5,000 manufacturers and regulators in over 120 countries. Mark has been to every continent promoting the adoption and use of the GMDN to support regulation as the single harmonised system for device naming and grouping of medical devices. Mark previously worked as the International Projects manager at the British Standards Institution and as a Senior Engineer at Instron Ltd.